Knowledge Resources

Develop electronic communications infrastructure to enhance supply chain visibility and monitoring, mitigate disruptions and unanticipated events, and improve productivity.
Broad industry experience with the electronic freight management systems

Deploy side object detection systems for transit buses that have proven effectiveness in transit operating environments and been accepted by transit operators.
Experiences from the installation of Side Object Detection Systems on transit buses in Ohio, Utah and Washington, D.C.

Use Electronic Freight Management (EFM) system as a supplement to existing systems and design the EFM system flexible enough to accept and provide data about any partner within the supply chain.
Columbus, Ohio's experience in the electronic freight management system deployment test.

Select measures of effectiveness (MOEs) that are measurable based on what is happening in the supply chain operations as well as in the deployment test.
Columbus, Ohio's experience in the electronic freight management system deployment test.

Be aware of the challenges of disseminating travel information during disasters in rural areas.
Experiences of a panel of experts in disaster information dissemination.

Closely coordinate the content and delivery of travel information messages to the public during disasters.
Experiences of a panel of experts in disaster information dissemination.

Adequately plan for the ATIS operational needs for communicating with the public during disasters.
Experiences of a panel of experts in disaster information dissemination.

Enhance collaboration by sharing office space among operations stakeholders.
Ohio's experience with the development of a multi-jurisdictional operations facility.

Use recommended practices to provide accurate travel time messages to the public using Dynamic Message Signs (DMS).
Experiences and guidance from the use of DMSs in metropolitan areas.

In preparation for managing transportation in catastrophic emergencies, identify agencies and their decision makers to interact with, and establish effective coordination with them to execute response.
Experience nationwide with responding to catastrophic events

Ensure redundancy of critical components in transportation support systems to be used in case of an emergency.
Experience nationwide with responding to catastrophic events

Ensure reliable and interoperable communication between transportation and public safety agencies and use ITS to promptly disseminate travel updates to the public during emergencies.
Experience nationwide with responding to catastrophic events

Sustain ITS network operations and interagency communications during emergencies by ensuring provisions for alternate power supply and telecommunications services.
Experience nationwide with responding to catastrophic events

Develop and rehearse an emergency response plan for managing catastrophes with minimum panic, disruption and loss.
Experience nationwide with responding to catastrophic events

Utilize technology sharing and training opportunities to form mutually beneficial relationships for successful incident management programs.
Cincinnati metro area’s experience with incident management.

Understand that deployment costs of 511 systems will vary based on system capabilities and anticipate the challenges of identifying these costs early in the process.
A national experience with the development and deployment of 511 Systems.

Recognize that interoperability is becoming an important issue in achieving the vision of a nationwide 511 system.
A national experience with the development and deployment of 511 Systems.

Use a systems engineering approach for technical integration of ITS.
Nationwide experience with ITS integration.